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Transmigrate vs Emigrate - What's the difference?

transmigrate | emigrate |

In lang=en terms the difference between transmigrate and emigrate

is that transmigrate is to migrate to another country while emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.

As verbs the difference between transmigrate and emigrate

is that transmigrate is to migrate to another country while emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.

transmigrate

English

Verb

(transmigrat)
  • To migrate to another country.
  • (of the soul) To pass into another body after death.
  • emigrate

    English

    Verb

    (emigrat)
  • To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
  • * Macaulay
  • Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
  • * J. H. Newman
  • They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

    Antonyms

    * immigrate